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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 17: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) (R) shakes hands with Sandy Hook victim Vicki Soto's sister Carlee Soto (2nd L), as Sandy Hook victim Dawn Hochsprung's daughter Erica Lafferty (L); Tucson, Arizona, shooting victim Christina Taylor Green's mother Roxanna Green (4th L); Tucson, Arizona, shooting victim Bill Badger (3rd L); and Sarah Brady (5th L), wife of former White House Press Secretary James Brady, look on after a vote on the Senate floor April 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Senate has defeated a bipartisan proposal by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) to expand background checks on firearms purchases and close the so-called gun show loophole.
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is an example of a spectacular success ... In the Tucson Sector, there are still hundreds of thousands of people crossing, and so if President Obama would do in the Tucson Sector what president Bush did in the Yuma Sector, we could get operational control of the border here in Arizona and then hopefully in the other states as well.
It's a huge mistake for Republicans to try and block [the bill], especially in light of the massacres that have taken place in Tucson, Arizona, as well as Newtown and other places
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